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enrolling

enrolling is the present participle and gerund of enroll.

enrolling is the present participle and gerund of enrol.

Meaning of enroll

Verb

enroll (third-person singular simple present enrolls, present participle enrolling, simple past and past participle enrolled)

  1. (transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
    • All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
    • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
  3. (intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
    • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
    1. (intransitive, reflexive) To register as a member of an educational institution.
    2. (US, intransitive, reflexive) To register for a class or course of study.
      • Rather than stopping her education, she enrolled in a GED program so she could go to college.2026 July 16, Nicholas Muhoro, “Inside the 2004 Brianna Maitland Case: One of Vermont’s Most Haunting Mysteries”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026
    3. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, reflexive) To register to vote.

See all 8 meanings of enroll

Meaning of enrol

Verb

enrol (third-person singular simple present enrols, present participle enrolling, simple past and past participle enrolled)

  1. UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada standard spelling of enroll.

Noun

enrolling (plural enrollings)

  1. An enrolment.

Forms of enrolling

pluralenrollings

Questions about enrolling

What does enrolling mean?
Enrolling means an enrolment.
What is enrolling the present participle and gerund of?
Enrolling is the present participle and gerund of enroll.
What part of speech is enrolling?
Enrolling is a noun.
What is the plural of enrolling?
The plural of enrolling is enrollings.

Words near enrolling in the dictionary

  1. enrollee
  2. enrollees
  3. enroller
  4. enrollers
  5. enrolleth
  6. enrolling
  7. enrollings
  8. enrollment
  9. enrollments
  10. enrolls
  11. enrolment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enrolling (page history and authors); enroll (page history and authors); enrol (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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